Tipton-Hendricks-Madison County IN Archives Biographies.....Miner, W. J. 1837 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   W. J. MINER, one of the representative and leading men of Windfall, was born
in Hendricks County, Ind., August 4, 1837, and is the oldest son of Richard and
Lynda Mira (Jackson) Miner, both natives of Indiana. Richard Miner was a farmer,
but ultimately practiced law. He served as Probate Judge, also as Justice of the
Peace for several years. He was a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He died February 9, 1875, aged sixty-two years. W. J. Miner spent his
youth on a farm, and received a common school education. At the age of sixteen,
he began an apprenticeship at the wagon-maker's trade and worked one and a half
years. He then worked one year as a journeyman, after which he conducted a shop
of his own in Elwood until 1861. He enlisted, November, 1861, in Company E,
Thirty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He was soon
promoted to Orderly Sergeant, later to Second Lieutenant, and in 1863, at
Vicksburg, to First Lieutenant. He was in battle at Port Gibson, Island No. 10,
Chaplin Hills, New Madrid, Point Pleasant, siege of Vicksburg and siege of
Jackson. At the close of the war, he returned to Madison County, where he
engaged in the hardware business, and subsequently handled dry goods for a few
years. After this, he again entered the hardware business, and in February,
1875, located in Windfall and purchased a half-interest of A. W. Gould's stock.
In October, 1877, Mr. Miner became successor to the firm of Gould & Miner, and
has since conducted the business, handling a full stock of hardware, building
material and agricultural implements. He is an active politician in the
Democratic ranks, and was elected Township Trustee April 15, 1882. Mr. Miner was
married, April 24, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Guisinger, of Anderson, Ind., and
daughter of Dr. J. S. Guisinger. They have three children-Orpha, Gertrude and
Paul. Mr. Miner is a member of the Masonic fraternitiy and I. O. O. F., and is
one of the most successful business men of the village. His maternal
grandparents were of Irish extraction.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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